[gentoo-user] Re: AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

[Ian Zimmerman]

UH-OH, Self-followup:

On 2019-07-14 21:30, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> I find it odd that there is apparently no central way to track which
> firmwares are being loaded without a debugging kernel.
>
> The relevant messages in linux/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c are
> all dev_dbg(), which as I understand does nothing on a non-debug kernel.
> Even the message printed when the firmware file is missing is of that
> type.
>
> I guess I could turn on the userspace helper, set it to some script that
> just logs every request and fails, and then remove the whole
> /lib/firmware tree, but that is a _really_ round-about way.

Solved with a kernel patch:

--- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c	2019-07-13 23:01:15.000000000 -0700
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c	2019-07-14 23:33:22.348028910 -0700
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@
 					 path);
 			continue;
 		}
-		dev_dbg(device, "direct-loading %s\n", fw_priv->fw_name);
+		pr_notice("direct-loading firmware %s\n", fw_priv->fw_name);
 		fw_priv->size = size;
 		fw_state_done(fw_priv);
 		break;


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